Randomness...

Just some random cute pictures. Brody before I gave him a hair cut. I hate cutting their hair so I wait till it is way too long. I really should work on being better about it. He looked so handsome with his new hair cut I couldn't resist taking some pictures. I didn't pose him he was being that cute all on his own. Funny thing he did the other day was walk up to his book shelf and folded one arm placing it on his belly and rested his other elbow on the folded harm taking his chubby little hand placed it under his chin kind of squeezing his cheeks and stood there looking back and forth saying....."hummmm.......hummmm.....hummmm..." It was the cutest thing I have ever seen in my life. Love him and so glad he is so cute because he can certainly be quite the stinker. He also made me laugh the other day when he took a dish towel and put it on his shoulder and says to me, "Look, I Papa Don." My Dad makes the boys pancakes just about every Thursday morning because they have late start at school and when he makes pancakes he always has the dish towel on his shoulder. Such a cute little smarty pants. ;)

Here are lots of random pictures of Mason still working really hard to keep his eyes open when I take pictures of him. He is such a silly little man. And just as cute even though he can't be normal for a picture!! I am glad these boys keep me going everyday!!

Another Lost Tooth...

Porter was very excited to loose another tooth. He has been working on it for quite sometime. He has asked just about everybody to pull it out for him and some even said yes but not until he asked Ryan did anyone actually follow through. Thanks Uncle Ryan for following through for Porter and pulling out that itty bitty tooth. Porter has the smallest little baby teeth I've seen. And this time the tooth fairy even showed up when she was suppose to. Happy Day!! :)

Windermere 1/2 Marathon...

I finally fulfilled my goal of running a 1/2 marathon. Trevor and I started training for it six weeks after Brody was born....he will be 3yrs this July. Life was so crazy, always changing and on the go we were never able to train steady and plan a time and a race to run. I wish so much that Trevor could have been there to run it with me. Trevor was always so supportive of anything I wanted to do. Did anything he could do to help me achieve my goals and would always cheer me on with such love and enthusiasm. I got a little teary at the beginning of the race when I saw other girls' husbands down on the centennial trail where we ran with their camera's cheering on their wives. I just know Trev would have been right there cheering me on with that big grin on his face. It was really hard to not have him there. I am so grateful for my Dad that trained with me and pushed me to challenge myself a little more, all the while running on a bad knee and bad ankle always in pain. He also was patient for me to get out of the porta-potty to start the race a couple of minutes after the race started. Haha..... We were about the last two to cross the starting line. I think I pushed myself a little too fast at the beginning. Definitely slowed down towards the end and had multiple thoughts that there is no way I am going to be able to finish this running......but I did!!! :) I was so happy when I looked up and saw my cute boys cheering me on. Garrett jumped in and finished the last little bit of the race with me. If you asked him he ran 1/2 of it with me. He is a funny little character. He was pretty excited that when they called my name out as I crossed the finish line they mentioned my fan coming in along side of me too. When my Dad and I were looking up our times on-line after the race he was pretty disappointed they didn't have his name and time too..... because after all he ran 1/2 of it!! Thank you to my Mom for handling all of the boys on her own to come and cheer my Dad and I on and to Jim and Carol for coming and showing their support with treats and Gatorade for us all!! You are so great!!! Also for all the support from my awesome sister in-laws who called and checked on me and cheered me on. I pretty much have the absolute BEST sister in-laws in the WORLD!!!! I honestly could not possibly think up any better sisters to have. You guys are so awesome. You deserve an award......no joke!!! I love y'all!!! :) My time ended up being 1:55. I came in 8th place in my age bracket out of 120 something. 59th place out of all the girls out of I don't know how many. 172nd place out of everyone and there was over 900 running. Not too shabby for my first race!! :) My Dad and I at home right before we left for the big race. Only picture we got. My cute little man decided to wake up at the crack of dawn with me and so he got to ride with us to drop us off at the race.......how could anyone NOT take a picture of that cute face????

What 30 Looks Like.....

Well who would have guessed this is what 30 looks like??? My awesome sister in-law, Amber, threw me an 80's themed 30Th birthday party full of great company, yummy food and bunko playing till wee hours of the night. It was so fun to see all the different getups the girls came up with that were 80's style!! Thank you Amber and all the fun girls that came and helped make turning 30 not seem so bad. Thank you also for all the sweet gifts you shouldn't have gotten me. I loved them all. You are ALL TOO SWEET!!! I was also incredibly spoiled by ALL of Trevor's family and my parents and a few others who know who they are. Thank you so much for helping make an incredibly emotional and hard day in my life bearable!!! I love you all so much and wish there was a better way for me to express and show how truly grateful and blessed I feel to have you all in my life. Your thoughtfulness and love has touched my heart and will never be forgotten. Trevor and I always would talk about how when we turned 30 we were then going to be SO OLD. I still don't feel any older, I am not sure if I ever will. It is such a strange and sad reality to have big moments with out my best half. I miss him so much and it hurts a LOT!!

Fast and Testimony...

Garrett has such a love for this gospel. This last fast and testimony meeting he was very excited to fast for his first time for his Uncle Bob and Aunt Amanda to be able to sell their house quickly and find a job close by us. He even turned down snacks during sacrament from his cousin with a little reminder from me that he was fasting. He did such a great job and didn't complain once about being hungry. He was also very excited to get up during sacrament meeting and bare his testimony. He was a little disappointed that he wasn't able to get up every Sunday and bare his testimony. He has been waiting since last month when he bore his testimony for the first time. He let a few people go before him and when he got up he said, "Hi, I am Garrett. I want to bare my testimony. My Dad couldn't read. Someone told him to read some scriptures. He did and they helped him. I have a testimony that the scriptures are a good step for life." When he was done and sat back down he looks at me after I told him good job and he said. "I kind of got stage fright." It makes me so happy that he as the desire to want to do good and the courage to say what he believes. I hope that he will continue to have those characteristics through out his life. I am so proud of him and I know that Trevor must just look down at these boys and smile his wonderful big smile that we all love. : )

Garrett had a homework project that I knew about close to the beginning of April that was due the last Friday of April and of course I am teaching him bad habits of procrastinating until the last minute. I kept thinking I will do it this time and then I move it to another time and then another time and before you know it it is down to the day before and things came up keeping me from getting the things I needed for him to do his project. We are then on the way to his grandma Carol and grandpa Jim's house so they can watch the boys so I can do my visiting teaching. Luckily they were kind enough to run to the store with the boys and get the things he wanted to make his poster, so we ended up only staying up until 10:00PM instead of who knows when. I sure hope I have learned my lesson. But if I am being honest I am sure this won't be my last late night project helping these boys with their homework. Just when you thought you were done with school. : ( Garrett was quite proud of his poster that was on taking care of our earth. He came up with what he wanted to do to take care of the earth and that he wanted to use pipe cleaners to make the earth. It was a poster contest and I asked him if everyone had brought in their poster. He said only 3 people had. So I guess I did better then not doing it at all. : ) Then I asked him who had the most creative one. He says, "I think I pretty much did." He cracks me up. Not a lack of confidence in himself. Ha ha.